Genocide Quotes

Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 ...

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest...

Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.   Ships are sent with the first...

If I look at the mass I will never act.

...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' ...

As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event...

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build a...

How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The ...

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even ma...

Matthew White, a self-described atrocitologist who keeps a database with the estimated death tolls o...

But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybo...

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe a...

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then...

The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a real...

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I ca...

The poison that is war does not free us from the ethics of responsibility. There are times when we m...

The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials ...

Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repud...

That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Euro...

After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolo...

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is lik...

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate al...